Luca Hahn

Luca completed an MSc in Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology at the University of Exeter (UK) in 2020 and is now a research assistant for the Inkawu Vervet Project in South Africa, whilst looking for a PhD position in animal social cognition. For his Master’s thesis as part of Dr. Alex Thornton’s Wild Cognition Research Group, he has investigated cooperatively built animal architecture and its link to social relationship strength and fitness consequences, using nest building in wild monogamous jackdaws as a study system. After his MSc, he has been continuing his work with the Cornish Jackdaw Project through research projects on social learning, social relationships, and cooperation. Luca is mainly fascinated by the social mind in animals, and his research interests include topics such as social learning, cultural evolution, communication, social relationships, and cooperation. Based on his passion for animal social cognition, he intends to do a PhD on this topic in wild animal populations.